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Studio manager at Dr. Panda. I believe that the best way to set an example for the team is to understand what is going on and work hard. Collaborative with the business whilst taking ownership of the technical challenges. Have work experience abroad and am used to leading multi cultural teams. I have a broad project experience and the required management skills.

Background:

Joop (1983, Dutch) started his early career in The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and South Korea. He then moved to China to work for Spilgames and later co-founded a ‘design your own’ online fashion company as CTO. Story about the end of this startup here.

At Sanoma Joop was tech responsible for building a responsive version of kieskeurig.nl and tenfold expansion of the database. He ten was Technology manager DonaldDuck/Disney/Kids & Teens at Sanoma Hoofddorp, The Netherlands.

He currently resides in Chengdu China and works at Dr. Panda.

In his free time, Joop likes to spend time with his family, study Korean and spend time in the kitchen. He blogs about the Technology, Asia and media, with articles published on thenextweb.com and readwriteweb.

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General Manager

Dr. Panda is a developer of games for kids. Dr. Panda games have been downloaded more than 60 million times and currently we rank in the top 3 global kids app publishers on iOS (Distimo / App Annie).

Dr. Panda games contain educational values that go beyond learning the alphabet and math. We feel that games can play a supporting role in kids’ development by helping kids learn about the world in a broader and deeper sense. That is why Dr. Panda games touch on subjects that kids recognize. Each Dr. Panda game lets kids explore a different aspect of everyday life from cooking and traffic, to gardening and art.

I’m responsible for production, HR and general management at the Dr. Panda game studio in Chengdu.

6 November, 2012 – 19 June, 2016

Website Development manager

Responsible for web (Django/PHP) and later a small game studio with a team of 11 professionals at Sanoma including kieskeurig.nl, donaldduck.nl and fashionista.nl. As board member part of change management. Responsible for defining technical strategy, optimizing procedures and IT infrastructure. With a small game studio, launched duckworld.com and two new web titles in just one year.

CTO

UnitedStyles

Created a ‘user generated fashion’ platform called Unitedstyles with two cofounders in Shanghai, China. The unitedstyles web application enables designing, sharing and buying of actual garments (outerware, ties, bags etc.) I’ve launched the application in The Netherlands, Russia, Japan and China. I was responsible for the IT strategy, technical team and day to day operations.

* Techcrunch disrupt 2011 finalists and most innovative fashion startup by Fast company (2012) The user friendly PC and iOS app was scalable, and through CLOD3D/Optitex a link between customer and fashion production. (automatic design to bill of materials + inventory management)
* The startup grew moderately and required VC money when we hit 20 employees,
* eventually we failed, but learned a lot.

28 June, 2009 – 28 July, 2010

Business Development Manager

Spil games is a games publisher and has 170 million visitors each month. As technical business development manager for the China office, I’ve partnered with local Chinese game companies and for localization in the international platform. Activities included visiting Chinese game developers and performing due diligence on their game, code and scalability. I’ve also taken part in the relaunch of a game portal for the Japanese market.

7 January, 2009 – 20 July, 2009

Marketing Professional

Implemented improvements for customer contact through a Internet Service center. This would include setting up the different channels for customer contact, and creating a ‘wizard’ to help customers select their life insurance.